Photo Hunt - Wooden
I was playing around with composition and color one day - a simple glass vase, Saturday, February 23, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Grrrr! Paneling sucks!
Okay, this is NOT how my house currently looks!!! This is the day or two after we moved in.As you "may" notice, there's a heck of a lot of paneling - and it's "pretend" paneling - not even real wood. I have no qualms about painting over it but at the rate I'm going, it'll be five years before I'm done!
I retired due to some health issues, my back being one of them. Painting is not the easiest task to perform but it's too expensive to hire someone to do it for us. So, I bought a gallon bucket of
"Kilz 2" (which is very low odor) and am trying to get the job done. I can't do much at a time and it's taking two coats to cover... I have painted less than one whole room and have used over one half a gallon!
I just know it'll be worth it when the ugly paneling is gone. Oh, by the way, can you see the "bar" - that cavernous area in the middle? Any suggestions as to how to fix the area that is shingled?
My son said just hang a bug zapper on it. Ha, ha.... I plan on taking the stupid shingles off and probably knocking out the bar and making it my office. But the shingled area has me baffled.
Any ideas????
If I don't make rounds often, please forgive me. These is taking the ooomph (what little ooomph I have left) right outta me...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Wordless Wednesday
UPDATE: For all of you who guessed "Vulture," you are so right!
Interesting looking guy, isn't he? And think of the junk that
would pile up all around the world without these critters...
Can you name this critter?
Happy Birthday, Darlin' Mo!
In celebration of Morgen's Birthday, he who loves all
things Egyptian and the color purple,
Morgen is also the proud owner of The Wren's Nest, where you can
find some of the neatest stuff for your home and garden. And a
great big plus, he's one of the nicest guys to be found on the web!!!
Love to you on your day, Mo!
Friday, February 15, 2008
Photo Hunt - Free
I have to admit to some "enhancement" to get the effect I was looking for, but this was a glorious sunset! And they're always free!!!
(And it was taken from my front porch which makes it even more
free - no driving or gas involved!)
Please visit TNChick and see what others have to say about "Free."
Despair.com
It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.
As you can see in the previous post, Despair.com allows you to make some terrific posters! This is one of my very favorite sites as I love sarcasm. Have some fun and see what you can come up with! http://www.despair.com/demotivators1.html
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Thursday Thirteen - Movie Facts
1. When a girl is in a house all by herself in a horror movie, it is always raining or thunder and lightning outside.
2. In all junior highs, the popular girls have big boobs, while the geeky girls are flat-chested.
3. In movies when a character is brushing his/her teeth, they never get toothpaste on their mouth or rinse out their toothbrush when through cleaning their teeth.
4. Anybody eating chinese food always eats it out of the box with chopsticks.
5. If you try to get your ex partner back by going out with someone else in order to make your ex jealous, you will succeed but by the time you have achieved what you set out to do you will have fallen for the other person.
6 . A woman´s shoes always make high heel clacking sounds, regardless which shoe type she wears. She can even wear sneakers...
7. Whenever at a bar or dance with loud music cranked up on high, the couple the audience sees talking have perfectly audible voices and can talk as though there is no music.
8 . The villain will always have thousands of henchmen working for him or a small army that follows him.
9. There is always a full moon when people go to bed. When the lights are turned off, a delayed light turns on, causing a blue cast in the room in which they could read by.
10. If you are going to be killed it has to be at a time when you are alone and it has to be at night and raining.
11. The antidote to any horrible, out-of-control virus can always be attained somewhere in the neighborhood of the other side of the world often from an exotic plant. Somehow these plants can always be reproduced to cure the epidemic.
12. If the movie is set in America any Australians will talk with a British accent.
13. Women of action can run, do karate, kickbox, climb ladders and perform highly acrobatic movements while wearing six inch heals and either a miniskirt or a tight leather cat suit.
Two More For Good Measure!
14. If a person has an occupation that involves spending most of their working hours at weddings, their love life will be a disaster or non-existent.
15. Every city - despite of its size - has at least one old lady who drives her belongings in some old baby buggy or shopping cart around. If the lady is a guy he always uses a shopping cart and never a baby buggy.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Two Good Reasons People Don't Go to Church
Jan Crouch, of TBN
Benny "Gumby" Hinn
Yes, I am a Christian but I don't wear the label "Evangelical," possibly because of the two charlatans pictured above. The reason I would never vote for Huckabee is because he has asked Kenneth Copeland for funds. www.wittenburgdoor.com/copelandclips
While I absolutely, vehemently abhor the "Name it and Claim it" or Prosperity Preaching, (and I cannot make that statement strongly enough!!!), at the same time the Constitution is clear on the separation of church and state. There are six "ministers" currently being investigated for nefarious use of funds collected from abused congregants, this is the other side of the separation coin. Appoint an outside source to do any sort of investigation, but the government is strictly prohibited from doing so.
Add Creflo Dollar to the list of charlatans that Christ would've thrown off the temple steps. These folks are chasing the dollar (no pun intended, Creflo!) and justifying the ownership of one or more mansions, one or more private jets, one or more limos or expensive cars; and in some cases, one or more sexual preferences.
It's no wonder, with the advent of TV, more and more people are throwing their money at these creeps, all the while hoping that God will love them enough to throw a few dollars their way.
Very, very sad....(But government, stay out of it!) There needs to be a "Consumer Beware" warning at the beginning of every program on TBN.
~~~Blessings~~~
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Monday, February 04, 2008
But Can Johnny Read???
Mrs. Jones, may I have your permission to let one rip???
Middle school issues ban on intentional flatulence
By Holly S. Anderson VillageSoup/Knox County Times Senior Reporter
CAMDEN (Feb 1): The Merriam Webster Dictionary definition for flatulence is brief: "flatus expelled through the anus." And while it's a natural bodily function, it seems some Camden-Rockport Middle School eighth-grade boys are taking it to new heights and making a game of seeing who can expel the loudest and grossest flatus.
According to this week's Fire Cracker school newsletter though, the joke's on the boys as the penalty for "intentional farting" is now a detention.
By Holly S. Anderson VillageSoup/Knox County Times Senior Reporter
CAMDEN (Feb 1): The Merriam Webster Dictionary definition for flatulence is brief: "flatus expelled through the anus." And while it's a natural bodily function, it seems some Camden-Rockport Middle School eighth-grade boys are taking it to new heights and making a game of seeing who can expel the loudest and grossest flatus.
According to this week's Fire Cracker school newsletter though, the joke's on the boys as the penalty for "intentional farting" is now a detention.
"Strange, but t